Welcome to the Gathering Pod, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast.

I'm Martha Beck.

Are you guys feeling the same way I am lately?

Like maybe this COVID thing?

I mean, don't say it very loudly because it will hear us.

But I think maybe we're going to go back into the world. Yeah. And something

strange is happening. I don't know if it's a combination of springtime and the pandemic looking like

it may end and people traveling again. But suddenly all the people in my life are interacting differently. And I had this

overwhelming urge to spring clean, which I think I've been talking about, because it's an ongoing

process, people. It's like I can't rest until everything is totally scoured out. And there's a

feeling of renewal and freshness. And I know our Australian friends and others in the

Southern Hemisphere are experiencing autumn right now, South Africa, South America, you're getting

those beautiful autumn vibes. But that too has a kind of newness and freshness to it. The spring

equinox and the autumn equinox are the two times of turning. Like the summer is

when it's high summer and winter it's when it's dead of winter. But these are the keys turning in

the lock these times. And it really feels to me like a key is turning in a lock. And also,

I've been nattering on for decades in my own mind and for years

out loud in public about this thing I call the transformation of consciousness. And I think

you guys are mostly repeat customers. I don't think you'd be here if you didn't share with me

at least a little bit,

this feeling that something's going to happen to humans in our lifetime. And it's going to be

something unprecedented and something good. It's like humans 2.0. Something's going to happen.

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